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IN making the last Congressional apportion
ment of the State, the township of Lower
Mohanoy, in Northumberland county, was at
tached to this District for the purpose of con
necting Dauphin with Union county. In the
new Apportionment bill this township is again
taken from Northumberland and attached to
Dauphin, after the necessity of using it as a
connecting link ceases to exist. But it is
feared that York county might be more than a
match for Dauphin, and so this strong Repub
lican township is taken from- Northumberland
to guard against contingencies. This is an
evidence of the extreme fairness of the proposed
apportionment.
The Governor's Message.
The special message of Gov. CURTIN to the
Legislature, advising an immediate appropria
tion to arm and equip the military of the State,
although couched in temperate and even con
ciliatory language, is significant of the purpose
of the Federal Administration to spread the
flames of civil war over the whole country.
This war movement has an object; and as that
object cannot be the defence of the lives or the
property of citizens of Pennsylvania. which are
not threatened with assault from any quarter,
it must be to co-operate with the Federal Gov
ernment in its war measures. ludeed we have
an intimation that as soon as the military of
the State are placed upon a proper war foot
ing, the Governor intends to offer the services
of the State to the Federal authorities for the
purpose of assisting in maintaining its power.
It is supposed that the Legislature will act
immediately upon the suggestions of the Gov
erne; and appropriate $500,000 by way of a
beginning. As this will be only a beginning,
and as the resources of the Treasury are inade
quate to meet an extraordinary demand, it will
be necessary to authorize
.a loan. War is an
expensive amusement. As soon as it is fairly
Inaugurated under the auspices of our Repub
lican rulers, the demand for a few hundred
thousands of dollars will be succeeded by de
mands for million upon million. Loan will
follow loan, and when the account comes to be
settled up, tax will be heaped upon tax, until
the people groan under the heavy burden and
realize the criminal folly of the rulers who
plunged them into a wicked ant unnecessary
war.
Let it be clearly understood that this war is
' commenced in the name of the Union for its
destruction. Those who are so infatuated as to
believe that the Union can be maintained by
force compose but a small minority. A civil
conflict is the nearest road to disunion. In
the existing temper of the Border States there
is every reason to apprehend that they will se
cede at the beginning of the conflict; and, if
they remain nominally in the Union, their ef
forts and sympathies may he against the Fede
ral Government. The Administration could
adopt no measures more likely to consolidate
the slavebolding States than to attempt coercion
upon the Southern Confederacy, while inducing
the Northern Seates to assume a threatening
attitude.
The Finale of a Bad Business.
The culmination of the political schemes and
plots, which for years disturbed the country,
under the specious plea of giving freedom to
Kansas, has been reached, in the election of
General Lane and General Pomeroy to the
Senate of the United States, from the new
State of Kansas. It is perhaps useless, when
the Goveriment is crumbling to pieces, and the
work of patriots and statesmen is being un
done, tinder the pretence of giving freedom lo
the African race, to mourn over any political
act, or give utterance to the mortification which
every good citizen must feel, at seeing the Sen
ate Chamber of the United States disgraced by
selections such as those just made from Kansas.
The Journal of Commerce remarks that this
is the logical and natural result of the proceed
ings which were had in connection with the
settlement of Kansas. The State will be rep
resented in the Senate in a manner to bring
discredit, if not upon itself, at least upon the
country at large, and upon the body which has
heretofore been understood to possess a large
share of dignity .and statesmanship. Lane's
introduction into Kansas was at the head of a
gang of rowdies and villains, such as never
before entered any Territory; and his subse
quent career, including his trial and acquittal
for homoeide, fully sustain the character under
which he entered upon wfield which has proved
successful to his political aspirations.
Of General Pomeroy we have no desire to say
an unkind word, but it is known that he is to
tally unfitted for Senatorial duties. and no more
than equal to the position of a member of the
lower branch of a State Legislature. He has
made his Kansas experience pay, both pecuni
arily and politically, and it would be a curious
piece of information, could the public be made
aware of the exact amount of assistance which
the contributions to the starving in Kansas,
have rendered in this Senatorial election. It
is natural that those who have received aid di
rectly from the hands of Pomeroy, should be
disinclined to oppose Ms political aspirations,
and as he has had the disbursement of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars contributed by the
charitable, we may readily believe that his suc
cess has been in no small degree promoted
through the misfortunes of one and the char
ities of another class of the people of the coun
try.
Bat It makes very little difference who fills
the offices at Washington. It seems quite cer
tain that the dap of the Union are near at
an end, and if our sun must set in disgrace,
Lane and -.Pomeroy may as well officiate at its
exit.
State Apportionment.
The committee appointed by the Legislature
to prepare and report a bill appottioning the
State into Congressional districts have agreed
upon the following. The State is entitled to
23 members of Congress ; the total population
is 2,906,370, and the ratio 126,363:
DISTRICTS. POPULATION.
I. The 2d, 3d, 4th, sth, Gth and
11th wards of Philadelphia.. 130,000
IL The Ist., 7th, Sth, 9th and 10th
wards of Philadelphia 129,353
111. Thel2tb.lBth,l6th,l7th,lBth
and 10th wards of Philadel-
125,843
IV. The 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st and
24th wards of Philadelphia.. 127,864
V. Bucks, Montgomery, (in part,)
and the 25th, 23d and 22d
wards of Philadelphia
VI. Delaware. 30,597
Chester... 74,578
Montgomery, South of
the 89huy1ki11 10,500
115,675
VII. Berks.. 93,819
Montgomery, in part... 50,000
143,819
VIII. Lancaster.. 116,315
IX. Schuylkill 89,515
Lebanon 31,831
121,346
X. Lehigh ... 43,754
Pike 7,155
... . . . 16,759
Carbon 9 1,033
Northampton 47,904
136,605
XI. Susquehanna.. _36,267
Wayne. 32.279
Luzerne .90,248
XII. Northumberland "8,892
Montour.. 13,053
C01umbia............25,065
Wy0ming...................12,540
Bradford. 48,735
Sullivan.. 5,637
132,912
XIII. Dauphin*......... ...... ...46,757
York 68,200
114,957
XIV. Union..
Snyder
.... 14,145
.... 15,035
Juniata 16,986
Perry 9 2,794
Cumberland 40,098
109,058
XV. Somerset ... 26,784
Bedford... 26,737
. Fulton ' 9,131
• Franklin. - 42,128
Adams 28,012
XVI. Cambria `)9,156
Blair 0 7,829
Huntingdon... 28,101
16,341
XVII. Tioga ..... ......... ...... -.31,045
Potter. ..... ..................11,470
Lyc0ming..................37,398
Clinton 17,723
Centre. :..27,100
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XVIII. Jeffer50n.......... 18,269
Erie. 49,431
Warren...................... 19,190
8,859
Elk . .. ..................... 5,915
Forest 898
Clearfield .........18,758
121.320
XIX. Crawford.... 48,755
Mercer—. ............ ......36,857
Venango2s,o44
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Clarion 24,994
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XX. 1ndiana...33,687
Westmoreand 53,736
Fayette 39,909
XXI. Allegheny Co., South of the
Ohio and Allegheny river5...126,364
XXII. Butler 35,59
Armstrong.. $5,797
Allegheny, part.. 52,474
123,867
.X.2L111. Lawrence .. 22,999
Peaver. 29,144
Washington 46,804
Greene. 24,343
We will not now enter upon an analysis of
this bill; but a glance at the arrangements it
makes is sufficient to show that it does gross
injustice to the Democratic _counties. Mont
gomery county, whose only crime consists in
her large Democratic majorities, is cut into
three parts ; one part being attached to certain
wards of the city of Philadelphia, another part
to Chester and Delaware, and another to Bucks.
By this arrangement Montgomery county can
have no immediate representative in Congress
—she is literally wiped out of the map, and her
territory partitioned among the adjacent dis
triote, as the kingdom of Poland once was
among the allied sovereigns. In the absence
of an overruling necessity for.this act, it can
be regarded in no other light than an outrage
upon her rights, as one of the most populous
and wealthy counties of the State,
Susquehanna is detached from Bradford and
put on to Wayne and Lucerne, so as to over
balance any Democratic majority that they
might possibly give; while Bradford is to crush
Northumberland, Montour, Columbia, Sullivan
and Wyoming combined,
Very little attention seems to have been paid
to preserving or even approximating to an
equality of pi:fah:lion. One district contains
a population of 159,281—exceeding the re
quired ratio by .32,918 ;- while another dis
trict has a population of but 101,427—0 r 24,-
936 less than the ratio.
Take, for instance, the five largest districts
which have the greatest excess over the re.
quired ratio, as follows:
11 th.. District 159,281
10th.....d0 186,615
7th......d0 143.819
19th do ... 185,650
12th do 133,187
708,552
—and compare this with the five districts that
have the smallest population, viz;
16th District
14th do
13th d 0... • -
Bth d 0... -
6th do
657,404
and the comparison shows that the five first
named districts exceed in population the five
last named by 151,480, or more than sufficient
population to form another district, and more
than any district contains, except the 11th.
But we have no doubt that the bill will be
enacted into a law by the force of party dis
cipline. We are not so certain that some of
the districts now counted as certain for the Re
publicans may not play them false when put to
the test of an election.
* Lower Mahoney township M taken from Northum
berland county in the Xllth district and attached to
this district.
During service in a church at Troy, N. Y.,
recently, the pockets of no less than six of
the congregation were rifled by some adroit
thief.
Message from the Governor.
The following message was delivered io the
Legislature yesterday, After being read in both
Houses, committees of conference were ap
pointed with instructions to report by bill on
the subject as early as predicable:
PANBYLTANIA EXECHTIVIE CHAMBER, }
Harrisburg, April 9, 1861.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania:
GENTLEMEN : As the period fixed for the
adjournment of the Legislature is rapidly ap
proaching, I feel constrained by a sense of
duty to call your attention to the condition, of
the military organization of the State.
It is scarcely necessary to say more than that
the militia system of the State, during a long
period distinguished by the pursuits of peace
ful industry exclusively, has become wholly
inefficient, and the interference of the Legisla
ture is required to remove its deficits, and to
render it useful and available to the public
service.
129,958
Many of our volunteer companies do not pos
sess the number of men required by our militia
law, and steps should be forthwith taken to
supply these deficiencies. There are numerous
companies, too, that are without the necessary
arms ; and of the arms that are distributed, but
few are provided with the more modern appli
ances to render them serviceable.
I recommend, therefore, that the Legislature
make immediate provision for the removal of
these capital defects ; that arms be procured
and distributed to those of our citizens who
may enter into the military service of the State ;
and that steps be taken to change the guns
already distributed, by the adoption of such
well known and tried improvements as will
render them effective in the event of their
employment in actual service.
In this connection I recommend the establish
ment of a Military Bureau at the Capitol; and
that the militia laws of the Commonwealth be
so modified and amended as to impart to the
military organization of the State, the vitality
and energy essential to its practical value and
usefulness.
158,789
Precautions, such as I have suggested, are
wise and proper at all times, in a Government
like ours ; but special and momentous consider
ations, arising from the condition of public
affairs outside of the limits, yet of incalculable
consequence to the people, and demanding the
gravest attention of the Legislature of Penn
sylvania, invest the subject to which your ac
tion is invited by this communication, with ex
traordinary interest and importance. We can
not be insensible to the fact that serious jeal
ousies and divisions distract the public mind,
and that, in portions of this Union, the peace
of the country, if not the safety of the Govern
ment itself, is endangered. Military organiza
tions of a formidable character, and which seem
not to be demanded by.any existing public ex
igency, have been formed in certain of the
States. On whatever pretexts these extraor
dinary military preparations may have been
made, no purpose that may contemplate resist
ance to the enforcement of the laws, will meet
sympathy or encouragement from the people of
this Commonwealth. Pennsylvania yields to
no State in her respect for, and her willingness
to protect, by all needful guarantees, the con
stitutional rights, and constitutional independ
ence of her sister States, nor in fidelity to
that constitutional Union whose unexampled
benefits have been showered alike upon herself
and them.
132,792
101,427
The most exalted public policy, and the clear
est obligations of true patriotism, therefore,
admonish us, in the existing deplorable and
dangerous crisis of affairs, that our militia
system should receive from the Legislature that
prompt attention whielt public exigencies,
either of the State or the Nation, may appear
to demand, and which may seem, in your wis
doni, best adapted to ureserve and secure to
the people of Pennsylvania and the Union the
blessing of peace, and the integrity and stabil
ity of our unrivalled constitutional govern
ment.
127,332
The Government of this great State was es
tablished by its illustrious founder "in deeds
of peace;" our people have been trained and
disciplined in those arts which lead to the pro
motion of their own moral and physical devel
opment and progress, and with the highest
regard for the rights of others, have always
cultivated fraternal relations with the people
of all the States devoted to the Constitution and
the Union, and always recognizing the spirit
of cone( salon and compromise that underlies
the foundation of the Government, Pennsylva
nia offers no counsel, and takes no action in
the nature of a menace ; her desire is for peace,
and her object, the preservation of the person
al and political rights of citizens, of the true
sovereignty of States, and the supremacy of law
and order.
123,290
Animated by these sentiments, and indulging
an earnest hope of the speedy restoration of
those harmonious and friendly relations be
tween the various members of this Confederacy
which have brought our beloved country to a
condition of unequalled power and prosperity,
I commit the grave subject of this communica
tion to your deliberation. A. G. CURTIN.
EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF INDUSTRY OF
ALL NAnows.—Lord Lyons, the British Minis
ter at Washington, has officially informed our
government that the Queen has granted a
charter incorporating commissioners for the
management of an Exhibition of the Works of
Industry of all Nations, to be held in London
in the year 1862. Lord Lyons makes the an
nouncement in a letter to Secretary Seward,
and adds:
The exhibition will open on Thursday, the let
of May, 1862, and it will be held on a convenient
site in the immediate vicinity of the ground
occupied in 1851, on the occasion of the first
International Exhibition.
The . general conditions of the exhibition will
shortly be published, but in the mean time her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs has, at the request of the
commissioners, instructed me to announce the
grant of the charter, and the object for which
it has been. issued, to the Government of the
United States. The commissioners are anxious
to ascertain what foreign countries will be
disposed to take part in the exhibition, and to
be put into communication with such persons
or bodies in the United States as will command
the confidence of the government, and best
represent the interests of those who may intend
to become exhi 'hors.
GRAIN FOR EUROPE.-bix British and Nor
wegian sailing vessels, of large size, now lie
at the wharves near the Grand Trunk Depot,
loading, or preparing to load, grain and flour
for different European ports ; and a consider
able portion of the former, we are informed,
will be taken in bulk. As this produce comes
from Canada and . the West over the Grand,
Trunk, the entire stock of freight cars is insuf
ficient for the business of the road. At a late
period last fall, we stated that an widition of
two hundred freight cars was needed for the
regular business of the road; but with the win
ter increase of traffic, it requires the utmost
diligence to prevent injurious delays of freight.
Seven regular trains run each way &Hy, with
extra trains as of en as possible ; still the de
mand is greater than the supply.—Portland
Advertiser.
_101,427
...109,058
_114,957
...116,315
...115,647
THE NEW YORK TRADE SALE. —Thursday was
the last day of the book trade sale in New York.
It has continued for seven days. with sales said
to average from $lO,OOO to $14,000 daily, or
$lOO,OOO for the whole time. The sale has
proved a disappointment. It was believed that
pikes would be very low and the sales very
light, but this expectation, it is stated, has not
been realized. Not that the prices have been
high either. but the result greatly surpassed
what was looked for, and it was regarded as a
highly satisfactory sale.
GENERAL NEWS.
A PLOT TO SEIZE THE FEDERAL CAPITAL...-.
Some persons insist that a plot has been formed
to seize the Federad capital, and it is even
announced that Major Ben: M'Cullocb, the
Texas ranger, has organized a force of 5,000
men for the purpose, and will appear at Wash
ington the moment the general government
sheds a drop of blood at the South. A "Vir
ginia gentleman" is said to have learned this
"directly from M'Culloch's own lips." Mr.
C. H. Hall, in a note to the intelliiencer, contra
dicts the story that the Hon. Jeff. Davis had
"bought a pew lately" in the Church of the
Epiphany, in Washington. He has owned a
pew in that church for some years. On leaving
the city the rents of the pew were given to the
vestry, and, as a sign of past friendship and
ownership of it, Mr. Davis ordered a plate to
be put on it with his name. This, however,
has not yet been done.
THE PEACH CROP IN NEW JERSEY.—At a
meeting of the Farmers' Club, in New York,
last week, Dr. J. P. Trimble, of Newark, N.
J.. said there would be plenty of peaches in
New Jersey this year. Mr. Lawton, of the
same place, stated that he had carefully ex
amined the peach buds on his farm, and found
them very healthy, as also the branches. Ile
did not expect peaches from one tree or orchard
for a longer period than three or four years.
The course he pursued was to plant 50 or 100
trees every year, and take up as many to use
for firewood. The loss was not much, as the
trees grow very fast, and they could be pro
cured in New Jersey for $lO per 100. They
were very beautiful while growing, and bore
fruit in two years. In that way he was ena
bled to have a good crop each year,
SUSQUERANNA PISRERIES.—AImost all the
gillers of this place have gone "below" end
are busily engaged in fishing for shad and her
ring.. We understand that larger quantities of
shad have been caught this spring than at any
previous senson,for a number of years. On Wed
nesday and Thursday mornings last, from 1,600
to 2,000 shad came from below, for which $l4
per hundred was asked, and $l2 offered, by
the hucksters. For the first that were caught
they received from $lB to s2o.—Havre-de-Grace
Times.
PARLIAMENT SYMPATHIZES WITH MRS. TEL
VERTON.—In the House of Commons on the
12th ult., a somewhat singular scene occurred.
Mr. Whiteside, Mrs. Yelverton's eloquent coun
sel, took his seat for the first time since the
opening of the session, and the Right Hon.
gentleman, on making his appearance in the
House, was "very loudly" cheered from both
sides--an ovation intended to mark his fellow
senators' sense of his able advocaacy of the
cause of Major Yelverton's victim.
THE DIFFICULTIES AT. FORTRESE RIONROE.
The Norfolk Evening Day Book, of Friday,
states that the difficulty at .Old Point Comfort
grew out of the refusal of the officer of the
Ordnance Department to discharge some men
in the blacksmith's shop who were supposed to
be abolitionists. The dissatisfied men then
seceded, hoisted the Southern flag .on the shop,
and left the employment of Uncle Sam. The
ordnance shops are outside the garrison.
The proposed amendment to the New York
State Constitution so as to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors as a beverage, passed the
Assembly on Friday, by a vote of 69 to 33. It
had already passed the Senate, and has now to
be submitted to the Legislature chosen at the
next general election of Senators, and, if again
adopted, to the people.
A MISSISSIPPI RIFLE COMPANY.—The Jeff.
Davis Rifles, of Holly Springs, Miss., have gone
to Pensacola. The company is composed as
follows: Planters, 14; lawyers, 4; editors, 5 -
merchants, 9 ; printers, 6; a deputy sheriff,
and the rest of carpenters, coaehmakers,.apoth
-ecaries, physicians, students, laborers, sad
dlers, jewelers, bricklayers, Ste.
IMPORTS OF DRY GOODS.—The imports of for
eign dry goods at New York for 'the month of
March have been only two thirds as large as
for the same period of last year, and but little
more than half as large as for March, 1859,
The withdrawals from bond, however, have
been large, the total exceeding the aggregate
entered for consumption.
SENT orr.—An individual who has been liv
ing in Anderson village, S. C., for the past 16
years, first as a shoemaker, then as a dentist,
and who stood fair in the community, having
been discovered to be an abolitionist, and one
by his own confession, was taken-charge of on
Monday by the citizens, and shipped to a more
congenial climate.
BEARS KILLED IN VIEGINIA.—AIex. Tolley, a
few days since, near Big Island in Bedford
county, Va., killed a large black bear, weighing
four hundred pounds. Mr. Tolley, who is not
more than 35 or 40 years of age, has killed 97
bears.
CELEBRATION.—The anti-Republicans have
celebrated their victory in St. Louis by a grand
torchlight parade of the steamboatmen, in
which thirty yawls were mounted on wheels
and handsomely decorated. •
WHEAT CROP IN INDIANA.—Our exchanges
from Indiana speak most encouragingly of the
growing wheat crop in that State, and express
a confidence that the fruit crop will be an
abundant one.
The 4th day of April was the 20th anniver
sary of the death of Gen. Wm. H. Harrison.
It is stated that Mr. Lincoln is now very feeble
from the" effects of continued application.
Among the candidates already mentioned for
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench is N. H.
Swayne, of Ohio. Mr. Seward is also named
for the same place.
Es President Millard Fillmore has accepted
an levitation to preside at the Unitarian Festi
val in Boston in May nest.
There is a colored woman in Charleston, S.
C., who pays taxes on $40,000 of real estate
and fourteen slaves.
W. C. Yelverton, who figured lately in the
great scandal suit in Ireland, has been sus
pended from duty in the British army. •
Lord Lyons has sent a special messenger to
•New York to look into the workings of the new
tariff act.
The authorities of Boston have already
awarded the contract for furnishing fireworks
for the fourth of July.
Dr. Norwood, of Henderson county, Ky.,
was murdered a few days ago, by a fugitive
slave.
James Corkrau was found dead, recently,
in one of the coal mines, in Allegheny county,
Md.
In Norwalk, Conn:, on Thursday, 100 guns
were fired in honor of the success of Woodruff
for Congress over Ferry (rep.)
An election will be held in Kentucky on the
4th of May neat for delegates to the border
slave State Convention.
Mary Ann Lovett, convicted at Louisville of
throwing vitriol upon Mrs. Parrott, has been
sentenced to pay a fine of $lO,OOO.
The Chicago it Wigwdm," in which Lincoln
was nominated, was sold at auction on the 30th
ult.
The citizens of Talapoosa, Ala., hare pledged
themselves to buy no goods from merchants
who purchase goods in the' free States.
Some miscreant in Cleveland, Ohio, hurled a
stone at the statue of Perry, breaking the
sword he holds in his hands/
Pius IX. has received from the Catholics,
both English and Irish in Australia, a money
gift of five hundred pounds.
The Hungarian elections have resulted in the
choice of a majority of anti-Austrian members
of the diet.
Miss Sate Otey died in Norfolk, Va., on
Thursday, from injuries received by the upset
ting of a fluid lamp on the 19th ult.
James Redpatb has been appointed Hayticn
Consul at Philadelphia.
, •
SIN THOUSAND COFFINS ON HAND.—In a case
before the Paris Civil Tribunal the fact was
revealed that the person who contracts with
the city of Paris for performing funerals is
bound to have constantly on hand not fewer
than 6,000 coffins.
Powsat or STEAM.—The steam power of Great
Britain, in ships, locomotives and manufacto
ries, is estimated at no less than 10;000,000
horses, or about one hundred millions of men.
We can infer from this how the steam engine
increases the productive power of labor.
Capt. A. H. Schultz has been appointed
United States marshal for New York, vice
Capt. Rynders.
I. N. Edwards, a horse thief, was hung by a
mob in Topeka, Kansas, last week, for killing
an Indian.
Nearly all our Maryland exchanges report
the wheat crop as very promising.
Secretary Chase is spoken of as the successor
of Judge M'Lean.
Thomas C. Taylor, a prominent and useful
citizen of New York, died a few days ago.
Second Lieut. Stephen D. - Kamen; of North
Carolina, Bth Artillery, 11. S. A., has resigned.
Miss Charlotte Cushman attended the wed
ding of a nephew in St. Louis, on Wednesday.
Miss Dix, the philanthropist, is in Nashville,
Tenn.
The Portsmouth (Va.) Transeripi says the
fruit crop in that region promises well.
The first passenger railroad in London come
menced running on the 25th of March.
Mrs. Gore, the novelist, left property to the
value of $150,000.
There are 214 uniformed companies in
Georgia, numbering 10,700 men,
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
From Washington.
The committee appointed yesterday by the
Virginia Convention, to come and ascertain
from the President what his intentions are, ar
rived here this morning. A member of the
Cabinet declared this morning that they would
go away no wiser than they came.
A special messenger was sent by the Gov
ernment on Friday night to Charleston, on
what missioti is not known. He arrived there
last night.
Col. Lamon . , of Illinois ; to-day received the
appointment of U. S. Marshal for the District
of Columbia.
Dr. Rabe, of San Francisco, was to-day ap
pointed United States Marshal for the Southern
District of California. This is regarded as a
complete triumph over Senator Baker, of Ore
gon, who opposed him. Baker obtained but
one appointment out of the entire number that
he was urging.
The Navy Department authorizes a contra
diction of the story that the Pawnee had landed
troops at Fortress Monroe.
Mr. Chew, special agent of the Government,
was sent to Charleston, .on Friday, to ask per
mission of Gen. Beauregard to proviston Fort
Sumpter.
He made his report to Gov. Pickens last
night, and Beauregard telegraphs to the Com
missioners to-day that such application has
been made.
He awaits adviees from Montgomery. Mr.
Chew is ole'rk in the State Department here.
The Government demands, through Mr. Chew,
that Anderson must receive provisions from
Charleston, or else they will be supplied him
at any rate. This is reliable.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
The steamship Persia has arrived with Liv
erpool dates of the 30th ult. She brings 115
passengers, and £57,000 in specie. Her com
mercial intelligence is no later than received
by the Canadian at Portland. •
ENGLAND.—Parliament stood adjourned till
the Bth of April. Lord Palmer ton, in a speech
to his constituents, adverted aglin to the Ame
rican crisis, and expressed fervent hopes that,
let the adjustment be what it may, it should be
arrived at by amicable means.
Fasacc.--Warlike rumors continued to cir
culate in Paris, depressing the Bourse, which
however closed firmer. Rentes 67f. 800.
The concentration of Austrian troops in Ve
netia attracted considerable attention, although
it is asserted that the movements were purely
defensive.
It is vaguely rumored that Lord Cowley had
demanded from the French government expla
nations respecting the expedition to Abyssinia
and the annexation of territory at Adoules.
The steamer Persia's apparent time for ma
king her last trip is 9 days and 20 hours. This
is said to be the shortest on record, averaging
considerably over 300 miles per day, and one
day she made 850 miles.
ITALY.—The discussion of the Roman ques
tion had closed in the Italian Chamber. Count
Cavour reiterated the urgent necessity for de
claring Rome the Capital of Italy, and guaran
teeing to the rope liberty and independence in
spiritual powers. A resolution to this effect,
and hoping for non-intervention by France,
was adopted. It is reported that Garibaldi's
former staff of officers had been ordered to pro
ceed to Brescia by the 6th of April, for a con
ference.
AUSTRIA. —The Emperor of Austria has sanc
tioned the political organization of Transylva
nia and its restoration to its former autonomy.
PORTUGAL.—The Portuguese Chamber of De
puties has been dissolved.
The Austrian officers regard hostilities as
probable. It is said that 50,000 Austrian troops
are in Venetia. The Paris papers assert that
the Austrian movements on the Po are purely
defensive. '
Several French editors. on an excursion to
Venice, were roughly expelled. notwithstanding
that their passports were revised by the Austrian
ambassador at Paris.
A sanguinary conflict had occurred at Lippa
between the German and Romanic inhabitants
on the occasion of the election. Three were
killed, fifteen seriously wounded, and many
others slightly.
DENMARIL—The Danish Government is making
warlike preparations for all eventualities. Mr.
Roasloff, Minister for Holstein in the Danish
Cabinet, has resigned.
Lownox, Sunday, March 31.—The Opinione
of Turin says the Sardinian ambassador at
London has received an intimation from the
British Government that he will be received as
the minister of the King of Italy. Switzerland
has also given a similar intimation.
The movement of Austrian troops continues.
Orders have been given for the construction of
additional works to the fortifications of Poland.
The Swiss federal council, at the instance of
Sardinia, has appointed commissioners for ad
justing the affairs of the Ticino bishopric.
lavicapooL, March 30.—The cotton market is
closed in consequence of the holidays. Bread
stuffs are quiet and steady. Provisions dull.
The Bishop of Poictiers has been condemned
by the Cnunoil of State to be formally repri
manded for the late mandemant of the Roman
question. - •
IraLy.—The Pontifical gend-armes near Vi
terbo, it is said,treacherously attacked a party
of citizens, three of whom were killed. The
indignation is general,and the people are sign
ing addresses to Napoleon, asking for protec
tion.
Tongan.—lt is asserted that in consequen
ces of an invasion of Spitzia by Garibaldians,
the representatives of the Great Powers at. Con
stantinople have insisted on the Porte sending
a mixed commission to Herzogovina. Hostili
ties continued in Herzegovina, between insur
gents and the Turkish troops.
The Porte it is said will submit to the Great
Powers before promulgating the reforms it in
tends to grant, apprehending that Russia might
again take up the project of a permanent con
ference at Constantinople. The Great Powers
insisted on a compliance with their demand.—
The Sardinian Ambassador at Cork tantinople
WASHINGTON, April 9
NEW YORK, April 9
has protested against the embarkation of the
sequestered arms at Gulatz.,
The British Minister defended the act on in
ternational grounds.
Bosnia is menaced will' anarchy, and Aus
tria has forbidden the export of arms into Bos
nia and sent troops to the frontiers.
CitmA.—Advices from China state that the
new treaty has been ignored by the Mandarins
at Foo Choo.
Lord Elgin has arrived at Trieste en route
for England.
Losnox, Saturday. March 30. —The specie in
bank has increased $154,000.
The Markets.
The flour market is inactive PHILADELPHI A, A small sales of eit o.xtra at
$5 5 8 3115 BT% ; Odra family $6a6.59, and $6.75a7 50 for
fancy lots. Ilye flour $3.50. Corn meal $2 81,14 'wh eat
$1.32a1 33 for red. and $1.40.1 55 for White. Rye 68,,
Corn GOc. Oats 33 , 1333 Ge. Whisky dull i Penna. Mt
17310 and 163b'e. for Drudge.
BALTIMORE, April 0.
Flour dull; lioward Street, Ohio and City Mille are
held at $5.50. with no sales. Wheat dec , ined 5c.; R e d
i State
$1,30a1.37; White $1.4051.65. Corn steady Yellow sf;
Mile. Provisions quiet and unchanged. Coffee firm, at
12y,a139.1 . c. Whisky'firmer, at 173ial8e.
NEW YORK, April 9.
Flour heavy: 9,600 bbls. sold at 6 cents decline
$5.15a5.20 ; Ohio $5 60a5.65 ; Southern $5.35x5,70
Wheat heavy : 15,000 bushels sold; Milwankie Club
$1.30; White Western $1A2a1.60; Rentucky Si 65 . _
Corn declined ; Mixed 67e ; New 61e. Pork Steady—
Lard firm. Whisky dull at 18Me.
New abuertiseinents.
FPTY BARREiIeK! of every dez-erip
ion. A large lot on hand and for sale by
aplo WILLIAM DOCK, JR., & Co.
TIAI I 7S! - 8,000 lbs. EXTRA. SUGAR
j_j . CURED HAMS in store and for sale Ira- for cash.
— aplo WM. DOCK. dic., i t , co.
-
NOTICE..—The undersigned has this day
disposed of his entire stock of G•ocArios. QuePn;-
ware, Glass, China-ware and Liquors to n F, t him.
MAN. d. Ii.VILMAN.
April 9, 1861.—ap10.-3t*
SIGNOR BLITZ
WILL GIVE TWO OF EIS
ENTERTAINMENTS
AT BRANT'S HALL,
ON THURSDAY AND FR IDAY EVENINGS,
11TH AND 12TH INSTS.,
For the benefit of the
STATE CAPITAL BAND.
One afternoon performance, for the accommodation of
schools, on Friday.
TICKETS 25 CENTS—TO SCHOLARS, 10 CENTS.
ap9-d4t
AUCTION ! AUCTION ! !
I will sell by Public Auction, on Wednesday, the 10th
day of April, A. D. 1861, and to be continued from day
to day-until all is disposed of, at the Store Boom, No.
12, North-western Fide of Market Square, next to Felix's
Confectionery, the entire sock of goods embracing
China and Glass Ware, Tea and Toilet Sets, lining:got
of different grades, Black and Green Teas, White and
Brown Sugars, Coal Oil and Fluid Lamps and Lanterns,
Oil Stands and Oil, Tea Caddys, Pbetform and Counter
Scales, Sugar Mill, &c. Also, Liquors, such as Brandy,
Wine, &e.; some old in bottles. Sale to commence at 8
o'clock in the forenoon, when terms will be made known
by (sp9-dtti W. L. TREWICK.
A
VITAS FOR SALE.—The
subscriber has a lot of these beautiful evergreen%
just received from Pittsburg, for sale at his Green-house,
above town, or at his stall in the lower Market House,
on Market mornings. They are in excellent condition,
and are probably the finest specimens ever brought to
this place.
ALSO, a lot of Locust Posts, from 6to 22 feet in /ength,
which ho will sell low for mob. JOHN M. MOB.
#Lp9-d2w
THE BIBLE ON DIVORCE.--The fol
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comtnittetb adultery. And if a woman shall put away
her husband and marry again she committeth adultery.”
Legislators and others, the above is the edict of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there is do appeal.-
4 'What, therefore, God has joined together /et no man
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TN THE MATTER OF THE APPLI
CATION OF JOHN M'CLOUD, JR., AND R WEST
M'CLOIID, partners under the firm name of 31 , CLOUD
& BRO., to be aiseharged from their debts, pursuant to
Chatter Eighty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the
State of Minnesota, entitled " Of the Relief of Insol
vent Debtor,' ",
Upon reading and filing the petition, schedules and
affidavit presentee by John M'Cloud, Jr.. and R. West
M'Oloud. insolvent debtors, pursuant to the provisions
of the Revised Statutes of Minnesota above mentioned,
an order was made by the Hon. E. C. Palmer, Judge of
the District Onlirt for the Second Judicial District of
the State of Minnesota. at the city of St. Pant. in the
county of Ramsey, on the 13th day of March, A. D. 1861,
requiring all the creditors of the said insolvent debtors
to show cause, if any they I h,,ve, before him, the Paid
Judge, at the Court House in said city of St Paul, in
said county of Ramsey, on Saturisy, the 22d day of
Juno, A D. 1861, at ten o'clo , h in the forenoon of that
day, why an assignment of the said insolvents' estate
slveudd not be made, and they be discharged from their
debts, in accordance with the provisions of the Chapter
of the Revised Statutes hereinbefure referred to. And
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of Minnesota, and also in the Patriot and Union, a
newspaper published in the city of Harrisburg, the seat
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said city of Harrisburg, in the Patriot and Union, is
the 22d day of March, A. D 1861.
Wlll. SPRIG(} HALL,
Attorney for insolventS,
Residing at St. Paul : Minn
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